Former Women's World Champion Tan Zhongyi capped off a tremendous attack against GM Anna Muzychuk to gain her third victory in the 2024 FIDE Women's Candidates and maintain the lead. All four games were decisive in round six, leaving GM Aleksandra...
The players displayed an abundance of fighting spirit on the opening day of the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament. GM Hikaru Nakamura sacrificed two rooks vs. GM Fabiano Caruana. GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu co-created a duel...
World number one Magnus Carlsen called it "kind of insane to get two Benoni games in one day" as he defeated GM Vincent Keymer with the black pieces and then GM Richard Rapport with White to upend the standings and take a one-point lead. Rapport, ...
Saint Louis and Webster cemented their places as the top two to close the regular season of the 2024 Collegiate Chess League (CCL). Webster's victory was a true team effort. Every single player―GMs Benjamin Gledura, Harsha Bharathakoti, Ge...
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GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu hadn't lost for 47 classical games straight, but today that impressive streak came to an end. He lost to GM Parham Maghsoodloo, who is the proud leader of the Prague Masters with a 100 percent score. GM Gukesh Dommar...
GM Dommaraju Gukesh beat the GOAT, GM Magnus Carlsen, after whom the 2024 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge is named, as a new Chess960 super-tournament began in Germany. He also took down World Champion Ding Liren, who lost all four games, while...
Day two of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters separated 56 advancing players into three divisions. In Division I Placement, the standout was 17-year-old GM Denis "the Menace" Lazavik who defeated GM Hikaru Nakamura 2-0 before also s...
"Here ye, here ye! Gather round as I tell a tale about the Kingdom Chess App that was just announced!" a wise knight once said. In this app, you can play chess against worthy opponents for gold, battle bots, solve fun missions, and build up YOUR k...
13-year-old U.S. IM Andy Woodward has secured his final norm to become the world's 10th youngest grandmaster in history. At the same event, 12-year-old Turkish IM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus picked up his second norm and edged closer to breaking a rating ...
GM Hikaru Nakamura secured $400 and his 17th Bullet Brawl title after putting on a tactical exhibition during Saturday's arena, adding to his Titled Tuesday win earlier in the week. Scoring 67.5/73, Nakamura accrued 246 points and was able to outl...
GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu won their white games in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's ninth round to join GMs Anish Giri and Gukesh Dommaraju in the lead. GM Max Warmerdam lost in just about the worst possible way to G...
GM Valentina Gunina is one of seven Russian women in history to attain the chess grandmaster title. She is a three-time European women's chess champion, a five-time Russian women's chess champion, has won three gold medals with the Russian nationa...
GM Daniil Dubov missed out on tying world number-one Magnus Carlsen for first place in the FIDE World Blitz Championship 2023 after both he and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi got zero points for the knight-moves-only draw they made in round 11. In a 59-min...
GM Magnus Carlsen secured the world rapid chess crown for a record fifth time along with the $60,000 first prize at the 2023 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship after scoring 3/4 on the final day. Wins over GMs Vladimir Fedoseev and Pouya Idani pu...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Yu Yangyi, and Vladimir Fedoseev share first place on 7/9 at the 2023 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship after Fedoseev missed a golden opportunity to defeat Yu while Carlsen was frustrated to squander winning chances against ...
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GM Alexey Sarana's sole first place in the European Rapid Chess Championship 2023 in Zagreb means he's achieved a remarkable triple—winning the European Individual, Team, and Rapid events in the same year. GM David Navara prevented a quadrup...
"The game could and should have gone differently," confessed GM Mateusz Bartel after GM Hans Niemann survived a huge attack only to blunder on the verge of victory. GM Amin Tabatabaei moved into joint second in the London Chess Classic 2023 with a...
GM Fabiano Caruana added the 2023 Sinquefield Cup to his year of victories on Thursday. In his final round vs. GM Richard Rapport, Caruana combined strategic clarity with dynamic execution to break his opponent's defenses. Caruana dominate...
GM Hans Niemann won the historic Tournament of Peace 2023 in Zagreb on Thursday by a massive three-point margin ahead of the field. With a 2946 performance rating, the 20-year-old American player scored 8/9, winning seven and drawing two games aga...
GM Levon Aronian joined GM Wesley So in the lead at the 2023 Sinquefield Cup after dispatching GM Alireza Firouzja in a rook endgame on Saturday. The game very nearly came to an end early as Firouzja came within one second of being flagged but in ...
GM Harika Dronavalli will face GM Hou Yifan in the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Final. On Tuesday, she defeated GM Kateryna Lagno in the Semifinals by a score of 12-10. It was a fairly even match in the first two segments, t...
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk advances to the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship 2023 Semifinals after defeating IM Vaishali Rameshbabu 13-8. She will play GM Hou Yifan in the Semifinals on Thursday. The "Chess Queen," who's also participatin...
Please note that the Pro Chess League has been discontinued. Read the official announcement here. It’s nearly time—the most electrifying team event in chess, the worldwide Pro Chess League (PCL), has been confirmed for 2024. Chess....
